Re: Correct plant names

**"Suzanne Pierot" s*@hvi.net**

I am not looking for name accuracy .  I can get that from the RHS book. I
need sources for plants in the US.
Suzanne Pierot
----- Original Message -----
From: "Duane Campbell" <dcamp911@juno.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 9:41 AM
Subject: Re: [GWL] Correct plant names


>
> On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 06:07:10 -0400 "Suzanne Pierot" <suzanne@hvi.net>
> writes:
> > Is there a "Plant Finder: book for U.S. sources similar to the one
> > published
> > by the RHS?
>
> If the RHS book actually were the last word on plant names, why would you
> need an American version? But in actuality, they are not the last word.
> They just think they are, and they have managed to convince some people
> that they are.
>
> Europeans like to have some kind of central authority to decide what is
> right and what is wrong, and if the RHS book is "right" for them, that's
> fine. But that concept has always been anethema for Americans. A plant
> was not given a certain "right" name at creation. All plants were given
> different names by different people, differrent names under different
> circumstances, even different Linean binomials by different professional
> taxonomists.
>
> The important thing for a garden writer is not the search for what is the
> "right" name but an understanding of what is an appropriate name for the
> piece we are writing and the audience it is intended for. And for an
> American writer, the RHS book is of little value. I have a godawful
> number of British garden books, and whenever I use one for research on an
> article, I always cross-reference names with an appropriate American
> source before submitting.
>
> D
>
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